Engineering who's who

4th year chemistry/experimental physics ucd

oh and carrying on from daveirl i'd like all engineers on boards to post up there course and college and people from other science related disciplines also so we have a broad knowledge base to draw from.

3rd Year Electronic Engineering - NUI, Galway

Electronic/electrical engineering - DIT Kevin Street

Postgrad in Dept Elec Eng UCC, with a physics degree. So I would probably have taught daveirl labs when he was in first year.

Originally posted by syke
There are only three blonde girls in your year.

Right this is starting to get scary now:eek: I'm not EF though, keep on trying!

SO it is congratulations!!!

Although I've got to ask, who is C, what are her full initials, cos I'm wrecking my head here trying to figure out who it might be? It's actually slightly worrying that randomn ppl can find out so much about me, I swear Dublin/UCD is way too small! Hope your postgrad friends aren't too annoyed by me in labs. I think they think our class is fairly cynical for some reason. Ah well, take it easy all:p

Postgrad in Robotics in TCD (now writing up for my PhD), with computer/electronic engineering degree from TCD.

PN, there's no course on Robotics, but you can do a postgrad by research in just about any field. There's a research group for computer vision and robotics, so I approached one of the lecturers attached to it and asked. There's a similar group in UCD. Career prospects - well, for robotics, there aren't so many in industry, but if you're doing a PhD you pretty much only do it for to stay in research and/or academia anyway. My stuff is on a mathematical area related to Kalman filtering. And the Desert Challange was mainly a research challange for automated vehicle research - there's noone working on that area here that I know of at the moment, at least not on that scale. You could try Oxford or EPFL in switzerland though, on an Erasmus program.
There are other such competitions on a smaller scale like the Robocup competition and a few dozen others though, you occasionally see entries to those from Irish teams.

Originally posted by PrecariousNuts
Would you recommend the engineering course in TCD?

Well, it depends.
If you're aiming for industry, UL might be better. If you're sure you want to be in the IT industry you don't want to do engineering. But as a general engineering course, it's pretty good. Just don't think that you'll be taught, so much as you'll be able to learn.

Is there much applied maths in it? I'm doing it (applied maths) at the moment and I love it.

First year applied maths was pretty much the leaving cert done with calculus. And you can say that engineering is applied maths at a fundamental level.

What is Kalman filtering? Just so I can get a general idea on what sort of topics you PhD guys do.

An introduction to the Kalman Filter

Surely you could get a job at Sony or those other corporations, they seem to have a fairly decent bit of work going on with Aibo etc?

Well, yes, if that is the area you're interested in. But you won't be able to publish your work (japanese robotics research is almost all corporate in nature).